"Blogs as Soapboxes"

In "Blogs as Soapboxes," Stefanac talks about the role of pundits in media and the blog world as well as their importance. Bloggers who freely write biased politics-- the opinion-based approach-- act as examples of their parties or lack thereof. An Libertarian will write about how crazy the two-party system is, a Democrat will write about whatever the Republicans are up to, and the Republican will write about whatever the Democrats are up to (of course, all three groups-- and the rest of bloggers who have different parties-- will speak of more than my example gives). In a way, these bloggers give American citizens and political figures/observers an idea of how the major parties are feeling about a certain person or situation or law (so on and so forth). These bloggers are vitally important for the transfer of opinions, where the goal is for universal knowledge. All McCain has to do to find out about the public's-- or a party's-- opinion of Sarah Palin is to type her name into any blog database. Pundits typically are at the extreme end of their party's beliefs, so blogging pundits are useful to guage the general opinion of political current events. I think that this is a very useful aspect of blogging, as most people can find time to read a blog before they tune into CNN or FOX News for an anchor's opinion.